A plate from the copy of Rashleigh’s Specimens of British Minerals sold by Thomson Roddick for £3600.
A bound volume of early works on a famous automaton chess player, featured in ATG No 2387, was not the only lot in a recent Cumbrian sale to produce a handsome return.
Bid to £23,500 in a Thomson Roddick (17.5% buyer’s premium) sale of March 27 was a calf bound, small quarto volume containing nearly 40 tracts and pamphlets dating mostly from the 1670s-80s.